The Fair­mount Park Hol­i­day Ginger­bread House Dis­play will be back at The Shops at Liberty Place for a third year from Nov. 4 through 22. En­joy 13 mag­ni­fi­cent ginger­bread houses hand­craf­ted by Phil­adelphia chefs and modeled after Fair­mount Park his­tor­ic sites.

The dis­play is free to view and open to the pub­lic in the Ro­tunda from Monday to Sat­urday, 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. The dis­play also serves as a pre­view of the an­nu­al His­tor­ic Houses of Fair­mount Park Hol­i­day Tours from Dec. 5 through 15. For the first time in years, Straw­berry Man­sion and Ce­dar Grove will be in­cluded in tours fol­low­ing their renov­a­tions and re­pairs.

The 33rd an­nu­al Phil­adelphia Jew­ish Film Fest­iv­al of The Ger­sh­man Y presents 18 films from 14 coun­tries from Nov. 2 through 16 at nine ven­ues throughout the city. With 11 Phil­adelphia premi­eres, the fest­iv­al will fea­ture five doc­u­ment­ar­ies, six com­ed­ies and eight dra­mas. Tick­ets start­ing at $12, with seni­or and stu­dent dis­counts avail­able, may be pur­chased by call­ing 215-545-4400 or vis­it­ing www.pjff.org.

It is Phil­adelphia’s first film fest­iv­al and has presen­ted over 500 in­ter­na­tion­al films that high­light the di­versity of the hu­man ex­per­i­ence, bring­ing to­geth­er audi­ences with dif­fer­ent per­spect­ives and ideo­lo­gies to ex­plore themes that deep­en an un­der­stand­ing so­ci­ety. ••